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Tracing SQL Execution

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Tracing session activity is at the heart of most SQL performance tuning exercises. Oracle provides a rich set of tools to trace SQL activity. This chapter introduces the Oracle SQL trace facility and shows you how to set up SQL tracing in your environment. Oracle provides numerous “events” that help you perform various types of traces.

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Alapati, S.R., Kuhn, D., Padfield, B. (2013). Tracing SQL Execution. In: Oracle Database 12c Performance Tuning Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6188-9_10

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